Tommy Mcdonald

4 Tommy McDonald. He was of boundless energy and without a fear, that little spark plug with no face mask. Tommy McDonald wasn't defined by his size or his stature. It was his immeasurable heart that made him, a halfback turned wide receiver, one of the greatest Eagles of all time. No matter who delivered the blow - Ray Nitschke, Dick Butkus, Night Train Lane, or another locomotive from the day - McDonald always bounced back, regardless of how his body wanted to react. His toughness became his hallmark, and he laughed every time.

Along the parade route to the Football Hall of Fame early this month, Tommy McDonald figures he got out of his car to boogie down about 20 times - give or take a few. He danced alone, he danced with the ladies, he grabbed someone's hat and ran down the street. Basically, the man was on fire. And after a quick living room demonstration of his pelvic wiggling abilities, it was obvious that the 64-year-old former football star has got some moves. And that they go far beyond cutting across the middle to snag touchdown passes.

Nothing much ever came out of Roy, N.M., but prime ribs and Tommy McDonald. "Not many people got the guts to live out here," said Harold Porterfield, 88. "Tommy's got to be the most famous one - unless you count that little girl who played basketball here a few years ago. Led New Mexico's high schools in scoring. " McDonald, 64, the short-sleeved wide receiver who led the Eagles to their last NFL title in 1960, lived his first 15 years in Roy, then moved with the family 200 miles west to Albuquerque, where his father hoped the speedy, towheaded boy might land an athletic scholarship.

Tom Brookshier, according to his friends, knew how to tackle. Whether on the football field or as a television and radio personality, his impact was equally immense and intense. He was an all-pro on the last Eagles team to win an NFL championship, in 1960, and was part of CBS's top NFL broadcast team during the 1970s along with his close friend Pat Summerall. In the late 1980s he hired Angelo Cataldi, launching the 610 WIP sports-talk format that remains in place today. Mr. Brookshier, 78, died Friday of cancer at Lankenau Hospital.

Jimmy Harris, the starting quarterback for much of Oklahoma's record 47-game winning streak in the 1950s, died of lung cancer Tuesday in Shreveport, La. The one-time Eagles defensive back was 76. Mr. Harris took over as Oklahoma's quarterback during the 1954 season and never lost a game, going 25-0 and leading the Sooners to national championships in 1955 and 1956. He is one of only six quarterbacks to lead a school to back-to-back national titles. Notre Dame's Johnny Lujack (1946-47)

Members of the 1960 Eagles championship team will be inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame tonight, along with former Phillie Del Ennis, former 76er Hal Greer, and baseball's Mr. October, Reggie Jackson. Basketball legends Bill Ellerbee and Jack Ramsay and, as a place of note, the Palestra also will be among the inductees in the hall's third annual ceremony, at the Sheraton Society Hill. Regular admission tickets are sold out, but "Fly With the Eagles" tickets are still available for $500 and include reserved seats with the members of the 1960 Eagles team that beat the Green Bay Packers, 17-13, at Franklin Field.

Tommy McDonald had waited a painfully long time to get here. Thirty years since he retired from the NFL. Twenty-five years since he became eligible. His father, who had been nearly as anxious, was dead. His mother, 88 and living in Albuquerque, N.M., was too ill to attend. So from the instant he got the news - at 2:38 p.m. on Jan. 24, in a phone call from San Diego - Tommy McDonald, the perpetually boyish Eagles flanker who is 64 now, decided he was going to enjoy his enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

It was a long time coming, but Tommy McDonald, the sure-handed wide receiver with a nose for the end zone, was finally chosen yesterday to be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. McDonald, 63, spent the first seven of his 12 NFL seasons, from 1957 to 1963, with the Eagles and was a key component of the 1960 team that won the league championship. McDonald was at home in King of Prussia when he received word of his election. "Where am I?" he said. "I'm in heaven, baby, right now. There are 20 people here in my house, so I'm sure glad you guys called.

Another member of the Eagles' 1960 NFL championship team is gone. Bobby Walston, the Eagles' all-time leading scorer, died Wednesday morning in Elk Grove Village, Ill. The 58-year-old Walston suffered a heart attack, an Eagles' spokesman said. "They're slowly dwindling down," ex-teammate Tommy McDonald said last night. "That makes six (players) from the '60 team who have died: Norm Van Brocklin, Howard Keys, Jesse Richardson, John Nocera, Joe Robb, and now Bobby. " As a pass receiver and kicker, Walston scored 881 points from 1951 through '62. His 114 points in a season held up until Paul McFadden scored 116 three years ago. Walston, the 1951 NFL Rookie of the Year, still holds the club mark for most points in a game - 25, against Washington in 1954.

Eagles legend Tommy McDonald could use your help: His 1960 Eagles championship ring is missing. Exactly what happened to it is unclear. According to his wife Patty, it was last seen at the 50th wedding anniversary celebration for former Eagles teammate Joe Pagliei, held Jan. 30 at Il Fiore restaurant in Collingswood, N.J. A previous report indicated that McDonald realized the ring was missing a week ago and thinks he may have lost it at...

Jimmy Harris, the starting quarterback for much of Oklahoma's record 47-game winning streak in the 1950s, died of lung cancer Tuesday in Shreveport, La. The one-time Eagles defensive back was 76. Mr. Harris took over as Oklahoma's quarterback during the 1954 season and never lost a game, going 25-0 and leading the Sooners to national championships in 1955 and 1956. He is one of only six quarterbacks to lead a school to back-to-back national titles. Notre Dame's Johnny Lujack (1946-47)

Eagles legend Tommy McDonald could use your help: His 1960 Eagles championship ring is missing. Exactly what happened to it is unclear. According to his wife Patty, it was last seen at the 50th wedding anniversary celebration for former Eagles teammate Joe Pagliei, held Jan. 30 at Il Fiore restaurant in Collingswood, N.J. A previous report indicated that McDonald realized the ring was missing a week ago and thinks he may have lost it at...

ARLINGTON, Texas - The Cowboys beat the Eagles three straight times last season. In each of those games, the Eagles' most dangerous offensive player was nowhere to be found. In those three ugly losses, including a 34-14 trouncing in the first round of the playoffs, the Cowboys held Pro Bowl wide receiver DeSean Jackson to a total of seven catches for 79 yards. He had just 14 receiving yards in that playoff loss, which followed his memorable "sting they ass" tweet the week before the game.

It's a good start and a nice gesture, but it's not enough. The Eagles should do more. On Monday, at a news conference appropriately held at Franklin Field, site of the title game, the Eagles announced they'll honor the 1960 NFL championship team by wearing throwback kelly green uniforms - complete with the classic, white block numbers on the jerseys and helmets with gray wings and facemasks - for the first game of the 2010 season. On Sept. 15, the Birds will play the Green Bay Packers, the team the Eagles defeated 50 years ago, 17-13, to win the franchise's last title of any significance.

Tom Brookshier, according to his friends, knew how to tackle. Whether on the football field or as a television and radio personality, his impact was equally immense and intense. He was an all-pro on the last Eagles team to win an NFL championship, in 1960, and was part of CBS's top NFL broadcast team during the 1970s along with his close friend Pat Summerall. In the late 1980s he hired Angelo Cataldi, launching the 610 WIP sports-talk format that remains in place today. Mr. Brookshier, 78, died Friday of cancer at Lankenau Hospital.

4 Tommy McDonald. He was of boundless energy and without a fear, that little spark plug with no face mask. Tommy McDonald wasn't defined by his size or his stature. It was his immeasurable heart that made him, a halfback turned wide receiver, one of the greatest Eagles of all time. No matter who delivered the blow - Ray Nitschke, Dick Butkus, Night Train Lane, or another locomotive from the day - McDonald always bounced back, regardless of how his body wanted to react. His toughness became his hallmark, and he laughed every time.

Members of the 1960 Eagles championship team will be inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame tonight, along with former Phillie Del Ennis, former 76er Hal Greer, and baseball's Mr. October, Reggie Jackson. Basketball legends Bill Ellerbee and Jack Ramsay and, as a place of note, the Palestra also will be among the inductees in the hall's third annual ceremony, at the Sheraton Society Hill. Regular admission tickets are sold out, but "Fly With the Eagles" tickets are still available for $500 and include reserved seats with the members of the 1960 Eagles team that beat the Green Bay Packers, 17-13, at Franklin Field.

Dick "Night Train" Lane hounded wide receivers with his ferocious tackles and quarterbacks with his interceptions. An undrafted free agent who would become one of the greatest defensive backs in NFL history during his 14-year career, Lane died Tuesday night after a heart attack at the assisted-living facility in Austin, Texas, where he lived. He was 73. A member of the NFL's All-Time Team for its first 75 years, Lane was an aggressive tackler whose signature hit - a clothesline-type move dubbed the "Night Train Necktie" - was banned by the league because it was too dangerous.

History covers the auditorium walls at the Eagles' NovaCare Complex. Look to your right and you'll see larger-than-life photographs of Hall of Fame receiver Tommy McDonald and the team's sultan of sack, Reggie White. Look to your left and you'll find the powerful images of Chuck Bednarik and Steve Van Buren, two men whose jaws may have actually been chiseled from stone. Walk 50 yards through a hallway lined with photographs of former Eagles Pro Bowl players, and the history of the franchise comes to life in the form of a 6-foot-8 giant whose sure hands seem to stretch from South Philadelphia all the way to South Jersey.

Frank McNamee had never missed an Eagles game. But on the afternoon of Nov. 24, 1963, as his Philadelphia Eagles played the Washington Redskins, the team's president was not in his customary Franklin Field seat. Instead, McNamee stood outside Independence Hall, with thousands of other Philadelphia-area residents, at a memorial service for President John F. Kennedy, assassinated in Dallas two days earlier. McNamee's absence was a tacit protest of the decision by NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle to go ahead with league games on that traumatic Sunday.